abdelazer

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Move beyond online courses: 50% off Safari–videos, books, O'Reilly confs, Prags(safaribooksonline.com)
10 points by abdelazer 11y ago|0 comments
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Safari in a Nutshell: A Two-Day Anniversary Sale ($0.545/day)(blog.safaribooksonline.com)
23 points by abdelazer 11y ago|5 comments
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Can Minecraft teach kids how to code?(blog.safariflow.com)
10 points by abdelazer 13y ago|8 comments
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Learn Python with videos, books and conference sessions(blog.safariflow.com)
14 points by abdelazer 13y ago|2 comments
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by abdelazer 14y ago
IANAA, but... Remember that these vacation policies also offer a very significant accounting benefit compared to PTO polices that let employees accrue & bank PTO. The accounting downside for these PTO policies is that many employees end
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by abdelazer 14y ago
Try d'Yquem.
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by abdelazer 14y ago
What you just clarified is a big improvement. "Would commercial support for Redis be useful to you?"
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by abdelazer 14y ago
Agreed. In the same vein: http://nedbatchelder.com/text/unipain.html
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by abdelazer 15y ago
I thought $32k sounded low.
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by abdelazer 15y ago
And you've just reverse-engineered (some of) http://m.ibisreader.com
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by abdelazer 15y ago
Yes. The Web SQL database on iOS can hold a maximum of 50MB and on Android 2+ it can hold an expandable amount (in practice it's often limited for various reason to 50–100-ish).
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by abdelazer 15y ago
It's probably worth running the HTML through tidy to get cleaner XHTML and then spending a little while trying to get http://code.google.com/p/epubcheck/ to be a bit happier. In general, EPUBs that "pass" epubcheck have a better chance of
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by abdelazer 16y ago
I look forward to someone re-captioning All Your Base with this text.
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by abdelazer 16y ago
That's right ($35 for most folks, $10 for people with very young kids), they're doing walk-ins for the pertussis booster right now ( http://sfcdcp.org/pertussisiz.html ). Everyone under 1 or with a kid under 1 (including pregnant women) sho
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by abdelazer 17y ago
Try visiting on an iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Droid, or Nexus One for the installable HTML5 version. It will then allow you to view both text and images without an internet connection _even in a darkened room_.
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by abdelazer 17y ago
Why in the world is Safari not on the iPad simulator?! I'd like to believe they'll fix that during an update, but I hesitate to think that Apple would do anything I find sane...
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by abdelazer 17y ago
O'Reilly has never used any DRM on their own (oreilly.com) downloadable stuff ever. The first 12 titles they put into the Amazon Kindle Store had (were forced to have) DRM for a while, then they got Amazon to drop the DRM.
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by abdelazer 17y ago
Yeah, we need to ask Google to whitelist Bookworm so that it can do a remote add-from-URL (described in http://labs.oreilly.com/2009/07/new-features-and-bug-fixes-f... ). Right now they're blocking it (just like if you tried wget)...
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by abdelazer 18y ago
After leaving Ruby (non-Rails) for Python this year, I've mostly noticed the difference in the obsession about testing. The Ruby crew is very into TDD (and now BDD)–that isn't to say that Python folks don't test (or do TDD/BDD), but simply